Top Hazing Articles

Bucks County's district attorney announced Friday afternoon that his office "had received no evidence or allegations which would call for the filing of criminal charges, either in adult or juvenile court, as a result of the reported hazing incidents among...

The manslaughter verdict in the fatal hazing of Florida A&M University drum major Robert Champion should send a message as loud and clear as the famous Marching 100 band, State Attorney Jeff Ashton said Friday.
“I hope this scares people enough...

Central Bucks West football coach Brian Hensel has lost his job after a hazing scandal abruptly ended his team's season last month.
Central Bucks School District Superintendent David Weitzel announced the news in a letter to staff at the Doylestown High...

The parents of slain drum major Robert Champion plan to hand out anti-hazing pamphlets Saturday before the Florida Classic, the annual football game in Orlando between in-state rivals Florida A&M University and Bethune Cookman University.
Champion, 26,...

IIf Brian Hensel and his assistants did not sign the Central Bucks School District's Coaches Code of Conduct, then why were they allowed to coach CB West High School's football team?
That's a question a parent of one player raised in the aftermath of...

The decades-long rivalry between the Bethune-Cookman Wildcats and Florida A&M Rattlers was once again evident Saturday during the 35th annual Florida Classic at the newly renovated Citrus Bowl in Orlando.
"I've been coming to the Classic since it was...

In their zeal to join a fraternity at Towson University, Brad Notaro and his fellow pledges submitted to a battery of humiliation and abuse.
At the direction of students they hoped would make them brothers at Pi Lambda Phi, they ran and performed...

You would be hard-pressed to find anyone in authority at any Maryland college or university who is not opposed to fraternity or sorority hazing. Yet when push comes to shove — or ice water bath or gross-out eating contest or binge drinking —...

In response to Carrie Wells' article, "Hazing at Md. colleges includes humiliation, coercion, hospital trips" (Nov. 22), just imagine what a different story we would be reading if instead of a week of drinking and hazing all the fraternities and...

The Central Bucks West High School football program is suspended following allegations of “waterboarding” and the forcing of a new player to grab another player’s genitalia during the summer training sessions.
Superintendent David P....

A school district in suburban Philadelphia canceled a high school football team's season and suspended its coaching staff after investigating reports of hazing.
Central Bucks School District Superintendent David Weitzel said in a statement to district...